Ask your MP to stand against the privatisation of visa services

Posted by Proud to be Public53pc on June 07, 2018

The Turnbull Government are pushing ahead with their plan of selling off our visa services to be run for profit by their corporate mates. Literally, their mates. Turnbull’s former employee and friend Scott Briggs and his company Pacific Blue are in the running for the contract.

Our visa services are vital to our community; they reunite families, give people a chance at education, bring brain surgeons here. Visa services should be fair, accessible and thorough, run by highly trained, accountable public servants committed to the national interest.

Privatising our visa services to be run for profit by a corporation places all of this at risk and threatens the jobs of 3000 people at the Department of Home Affairs.

Right now, we have an opportunity to send a message that cannot be ignored – that the community wants our visa services to stay in public hands. Minister Dutton intends to go to tender for the contract on July 1, 2018, but with four by-elections and a federal election looming the Government is sensitive to public opinion which means now is the time to urgently ramp up the pressure.

Your local MP needs to hear that this issue matters to you. Email them today to ask them to stand against the privatisation of visa services.

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Privatising is another way of creating “Jobs for the boys” like Howard and Telstra, Australia Post. It costs us more but make the Liberals rich. A slap in the face is temporary. If the Labour party get in then the deletion of the Liberal Party must be permanent or we go through this again in 4 years. Mike

Lindsay O'Neil commented
2018-06-09 13:38:19 +1000

Well this is very concerning

Here we have what most of the public would see as conflicts of interest, and dare I say bias and even collusion from a Government which barely has any credibility with the public it claims to represent.

I sincerely hope the public deliver them a much needed and necessary slap in the face at the coming by elections.

I don’t much care who wins I don’t have much faith in any politician they all appear to be in it for their on self interest and not the public they claim to represent. I think we need more independent politicians to, as the Australian Democrats said, ‘’keep the bastard honest’’.

The question that every one should consider is how does the government intend to guarantee the same level of service to the public and the extremely high level of integrity, accountability and security to the Australian Public that is already provided by the extremely dedicated, hard working, under valued & understaffed Public Servants.